Fabio Calabria

Four riders have been away sine the fourth kilometre, including our sole representative in the race Fabio Calabria, he was joined by Brown/Rabobank, Rudolph/Drapac and Lang/Rapha Condor and between them they managed to get a lead of just over three minutes, but that has now crumbled to 1m 11s.

The original breakaway was caught just after the 90kilometre to go banner and soon afterwards a fresh break was started, it included two riders from UnitedHealthcare B.Day and R.Sutherland and B.Grenda/Rapha Condor, they currently hold an advantage of 1m 19s.

The three leaders have increased their lead to 4m 3s due to the fact they are working very well together

Team Sky and Orica GreenEdge have decided to come to the front of the main pack and share the pace setting in a view to recapturing the breakaways

As the race behind them starts to hot up with several breaks going off the front of the peleton, the three riders at the front realise they are living on borrowed time and decide to put one final big effort

With just 10 kilometres of racing left to finish the lead is 1m 27s back to a chasing group of five riders who include a lot of the pre race favourites

Ben Day/UnitedHealthcare has seen an opportunity to attack out of the breakaway and has gone off alone to try and ride to the finish, knowing that his team mate behind him will not aid in the chase

With just one kilometre to go to the finish he knows he has the title in the bag but he will not ease up until he has crossed the line

And he does it in Great style, Ben Day is the new Australian Road Champion 2012

UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team

Fabio did a brilliant ride today to get a top ten finish whilst riding for himself compared to GreenEdge and Team Sky who had many riders. We asked him just to go out and enjoy the day and breathe in the atmosphere and boy did he enjoy it.

Alexander Serebryakov
Rubens Bertogliati
Julien El Fares
Javier Megias
Vegard Stake Laengen
Daniele Colli
Aldo Ino Ilesic
Laszlo Bodrogi